Timothy Brown

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Timothy Brown

by Frederick Christian Lewis Sr, after Nathan Cooper Branwhite
stipple engraving, 1832 or after
14 3/4 in. x 9 7/8 in. (375 mm x 252 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Whitin Fund, 1954
Reference Collection
NPG D32229

Sitterback to top

  • Timothy Brown (1743 or 1744-1820), Banker and brewer; father of Sarah, Mrs Edward Vernon Utterson. Sitter in 1 portrait.

Artistsback to top

  • Nathan Cooper Branwhite (1774 or 1775-1857), Miniature painter and engraver. Artist or producer associated with 21 portraits.
  • Frederick Christian Lewis Sr (1779-1856), Engraver and landscape painter. Artist or producer associated with 192 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.

Events of 1832back to top

Current affairs

William IV agrees to the creation of new peers in order to obtain the passage of the Reform Act, although this proved unnecessary when the Tories withdrew opposition. Male franchise is extended by fifty percent; fifty-six 'rotten boroughs' lose representation and forty-one new constituencies are created. Irish and Scottish Reform Acts are also passed.

Art and science

Mathematician Charles Babbage publishes his best selling Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. In response to recent outbreaks of machine-breaking and riots, he aimed to reveal the sources of Britain's industrial strength to the urban elite and promote institutional change.
Parliament votes funds for National Gallery buildings in Trafalgar Square.

International

Free land grants end for English settlers in Australia on recommendation of the leading colonisation theorist Edward Wakefield in his Letter from Sydney.
Greek independence recognised by the Treaty of London.

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Abraham S. Marrache

02 January 2016, 18:57

1744 Kirkoswold - 1820 Camberwell Banker at 66-67 Lombard Street and Brewer with Samuel Whitbread II at Chiswell Street. Master of the Worshipful Company of Brewers in 1817. Supporter of Radical causes and host to a weekly Enlightenment soirée, on Sundays, at his home, Peckham Lodge. Backer for the Second part of Thomas Paine´s "The Age of Reason", he also financed the English version of Baron d'Holbach´s "Ecce Homo" and acted as surety in 1812 for William Cobbett, who dedicated his "A Year´s Residence in the United States" to him